The Advocate

Learning to play the dulcimer can lead to more than making music: Jan Risher

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...

Strings are the thing: Woodside's Vicki Gibboney focuses on the hammered dulcimer

Her local options were highly limited 20 years ago, so Vicki Gibboney picked up a pair of hammers — small ones — and went to work creating a new page in Aiken's music scene. The ...
Richmond Register

Sweet Sounds

Newbies and old hands at dulcimer playing flocked to the Perkins building on the EKU campus Saturday for a dulcimer festival, celebrating all things dulcimer. The mountain dulcimer, for the ...
The Ledger

Dulcimer group making music in the park

WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...
Orlando Sentinel

EXPERIENCED MUSICIANS TEACH BEGINNERS’ LESSONS

Leesburg Recreation and Parks Department will sponsor beginner mountain-dulcimer music lessons starting Sept. 29. Classes will include instruction by Jim Lowman and Elaine Reichenbacher, experienced ...